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Prince of Wales

obligation of his creditors to claim payment of debts within a short period of their being incurred on pain of the debts being barred, see 35 Geo. 3, c. 125.

Pretensed right

or been in possession of the land, or of the reversion or remainder, for one whole year, on pain that both purchaser and vendor should each forfeit the value of such land to the King and the

Physiotherapist

chest physio-therapy in the intensive care units, curing physical disorders or disability promoting physical fitness, facilitating healing and pain relief and treatment of physical and psychosomatic disorders through modulaing psysiological and physical response using physical agents, activities

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Peine forte et dure

Peine forte et dure (the strong and hard pain) [peine (or penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which

Paranoid schizophrenia

of hypnotism, electricity wireless telegraphy or atomic agencies. The patient gets very irritate and excited owing to these painful and disagreeable hallucinations and delusions. Since so many people are against him and are interested in his ruin,

Pandect', or Digesta

of correction, for which purpose every doctor or scholar was obliged to lend his own perfect copy, under pain of a fine of five lire; hence the term exempla correcta et bene emendata. Books thus corrected were

Mortmain

and other corporations, which were supposed to hold them in a dead or unserviceable hand, were prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord, the fruits of whose feudal seigniory (the great hinge of government in those

Catechise

of their parishes 'in the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Belief and in the Lord's Prayer,' on pain of sharp reproof upon the first complaint for neglect of duty, suspension for the second offence, and, 'there

Mitigation

Mitigation, abatement of anything penal, harsh, or painful. An address in mitigation is a speech made by the defendant or his counsel to the judge, after

Mental cruelty

s. 13(1) (ia) can broadly be defined as that conduct which inflicts upon the other party such mental pain and suffering as would make it not possible for that party to live with the other. In other

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